Annie Jones (left) and Hannah Tabernacle are members of the campaign group

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Young people have launched a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of cultural diversity.

The group of nine sixth formers from Rainford, which has a predominately white British population, said they were concerned that they are growing up with little contact with people from other nationalities and cultures.

To tackle the issue they have joined forces with Fixers, a national charity that supports young people aged 16-25 to tackle any issue that matters to them, however they choose.

The group said they were eager to learn to respect, tolerate, appreciate and enjoy other cultures – and they wanted to encourage other young people to do the same.

They have made a short film with Fixers to get their message across.

One of the group, Annie Jones, 16, said: “Rainford is very rural and sheltered so there aren’t many different cultures and about 99% of students at our school are white British.

“I think that at a younger age we should be encouraged to embrace and mix with different cultures so that we are never in a position where we might become ignorant.”

As part of their project, Fixers arranged for the girls to travel to an inner-city school in Liverpool to meet pupils there.

Fellow Fixer Hannah Tabernacle, 17, added: “I really hope that we can change things with our Fixers campaign and try to make a people a little bit more open-minded.

Staff at Rainford High Technology College are supporting their students’ project.

Principal Ian Young said: “This project is so important because issues of prejudice and racism come out of ignorance and a lack of understanding.

“We want tomorrow’s communities to be stronger than today’s and this I think is a very important way of moving that forward.”

The charity works with young people across the UK. Each Fixer is supported to create the resources they need to make their chosen project a success, with creative help from media professionals to make their own promotional material, such as films, websites or print work.

Fixers has already supported more than 10,400 young people across the UK to have an authentic voice in their community.

Young people have campaigned on issues as diverse as cyber-bullying, self-harm, suicide and the need for more random acts of kindness. The charity aims to work with over 70,000 young people aged 16 to 25 by 2020 to help them to take action and tackle the issues they feel strongly about.

Chief executive Margo Horsley said: “Fixers are always courageous and their ideas can be challenging and life-changing, not just for themselves.”